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M. L. LISSBERGER'.

SASH WEIGHT.

, INVENTOR: .EW Y BY JIM/WW ATTORNEYS.

I WITNESSES:

UNITED STA ES PATENT OFFICE.

MILTON L. LISSBERGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE NEW YORK SMELTING AND REFINING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.-

SASH-WEIGHT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,317, dated March 13, 1888.

Application filed May 4, 1887. Serial No. 237,277. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MILTON L. LISSBERGER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Window- Sash Weight, of which the following isafull, clear, and exact description.

The invention consists of the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the preferred form of sash-weight, showing the eyeshank inserted in the eye-cavity of the weight,

ready to be attached by the insertion of a wedge.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation, showing the weight complete.

The body of the weight, A, is made of compressed lead and is provided at one end with an eye, B, which forms a part of a shank, 0, connected to the body by a lateral connection, 0, inserted into the body, the eye B being for the purpose of connecting the weight to a sash cord or chain.

The body of the weight is formed with a recess, a, inclined at one of its walls, as shown at a, and the shank'O is made straight and formed at its lower end with the penetrat- 3o ing point 0, bent at an angle to the shank C. To secure the shank and eye to the weight, I insert the shank in the recess a and then drive the wedge (2 into the recess at the back of the shank, the inclined surface of the wedge com- 3 5 ing against the inclined Wall a. The opposite surface of the wedge is made straight, as shown in Fig. 2, and as the wedge is forced down into the recess a it forces the shank G to one side and embeds the point 0 in the body of the 0 weight, as shown in Fig. 2, thus firmly securing it in place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 5 The lead body A of the weight, formed with the recess a, beveled upwardly and outwardly at one side, in combination with shank 0, formed with the lateral point e at its lower end, and the ivedge d, made flat at one surface 50.

and beveled at the opposite surface and driven into the recess next to the shank, substantially as described.

MILTON L. LISSBERGER.

Witnesses:

B. SoHU'rz, M. LISSBERGER. 

